2008/07/14 by G. Aielli, G. Aielli et al., C. Bacci +98 · 38 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Argo #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Computer science #Cosmic ray #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Detector #Energy (signal processing) #Geology #Mode (computer interface) #Neutrino Physics Research #Nuclear physics #Optics #Physics #Transient (computer programming) #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2008.07.002
published in Astroparticle Physics 30(2), 85-95 (Elsevier BV) · accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physics
arxiv created 2008/07/14 · openalex publication_date 2008/07/25 · arxiv updated 2011/06/09 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The ARGO-YBJ experiment has been designed to study the Extensive Air Showers with an energy threshold lower than that of the existing arrays by exploiting the high altitude location(4300 m a.s.l. in Tibet, P.R. China) and the full ground plane coverage. The lower energy limit of the detector (E ∼ 1 GeV) is reached by the scaler mode technique, i.e. recording the counting rate at fixed time intervals. At these energies, transient signals due to local (e.g. Forbush Decreases) and cosmological (e.g. Gamma Ray Bursts) phenomena are expected as a significant variation of the counting rate compared to the background. In this paper the performance of the ARGO-YBJ detector operating in scaler mode is described and discussed.